America Started To Expand from 1801 and 1861, So this page is about Territory Expansion


What Territories?
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Florida
  • Texas
  • Oregon
  • California

L0UiSiANA PURCHASE
  • 1803
  • Thomas Jefferson bought this from France
  • This doubled the size of the US
  • Lewis And Clark explored this

LEWiS AND CLARKE EXPEDiTI0N
  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke
  • It was From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

FL0RiDA
  • 1819
  • From Spain
  • Was a US territory in 1821

TEXAS
  • 1845
  • Was a Independant Republic in 1836
  • It was its own country
  • it was added to the US

0REG0N
  • 1846
  • Oregon Territory
  • Was divided between the US and Great Britain
  • Oregon Trail (1840)

CALiF0RNiA
  • US was at war with Mexico
  • Rio Grande Dispute
  • US gets Cali. and Southwest territories.
(California Gold Rush)


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5-15-08